Subfamilia: LAMIINAE / Tribus: DORCADIONINI
Dorcadion ninae ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion ninae, a rare endemic Dorcadion to South-Eastern Kazakhstan, has been described from Kanshengel village environs by Mikhail Danilevsky in 1995 [✧]. D. ninae, species close to Dorcadion pantherinum Jakovlev, 1899, inhabits sagebrush (Artemisia) plain transitional zone between clay and sand desert.
Body length: ♂ 16.4 - 20 mm / ♀ 17.6 - 22.5 mm Life cycle: 1 year Adults in: late April - first half of May Host plant: roots of various grass species (Poaceae) Distribution: an endemic species to South-Eastern Kazakhstan
The depicted beetles were collected 16 km S of Kanshengel (Қаншеңгел) village (N44°10′15″ E75°30′45″; 550 m a.s.l., Zhambyl district, Almaty region, Kazakhstan) on April 29, 2015.Collected by Petr Jelínek
[✧]
Danilevsky M.L.:
New Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 from Kazakhstan (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae).
Lambillionea 95 (3) 2: 420-428, 1995. [download]
Toropov S.A., Milko D.A.:
Longhorns of the tribe Dorcadionini (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae) of Kazakhstan and Middle Asia.
SatEnto, Bishkek, 103pp, 2013. [download
Dorcadion ninae ♂ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
Dorcadion ninae ♀ [Photo © Petr Jelínek]
| Subfamilia | Lamiinae Latreille, 1825 |
| Tribus | Dorcadionini Swainson, 1840 |
| Genus | Dorcadion Dalman, 1817 |
| Subgenus | Acutodorcadion Danilevsky, Kasatkin & Rubenian, 2004 |
| Species | Dorcadion (Acutodorcadion) ninae Danilevsky, 1995 |